- Scalability: Dedicated proxy to run backup and replication jobs
- Scalability: Repository to hold backups and replication metadata
- Scalability: Dynamic job assignment
- Scalability: Intelligent load balancing
- Scalability: Windows target support
- Scalability: Multiple vPower repositories
- Scalability: Multiple user Veeam console connections
- Scalability: Log collection wizard
- Replication: Leverage hot-add for disk writes
- Replication: Replication can target a cluster object
- Replication: Proxy to proxy compression (up to 10x improvement)
- Replication: Multi-select operations for multiple VM failover
- Replication: Enhanced job configuration
- Multi-hypervisor support: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere
- Multi-hypervisor support: Easy license exchange for different hypervisors
- Multi-hypervisor support: Dedicated Hyper-V off host proxy
- Enterprise Manager: Job editing
- Enterprise Manager: Job cloning
- Enterprise Manager: FIPS compliance
- Enterprise Manager: Improved interface design
- 1-Click File Restore
- File restore operator role
- Traffic throttling
- Improved domain controller handling
- More efficient CPU usage for backup jobs
- Multiple TCP/IP connections per job
- Optimization for WAN transfers
- Source data retrieval optimizations
- Exclude virtual machine swap file
- Enforceable backup window
- Simultaneous backup and replication jobs now permitted
- Backup mapping from existing backup file
- Backup metadata file for quick foreign imports
- Enhanced backup format file
- Backup data file alignment to 4K on writes
- Write enhancement for deduplication targets
- 2-proxy replication architecture
- Replication state protection
- Improved job reports
- Wizard navigation improvements
- 1-Click automated failback for replication jobs
- 1-Click permanent failover for replication jobs
- Active rollbacks of replication jobs
- Improved replica seeding
- Replica mapping
- Re-IP for replicated VMs
- Full support for distributed virtual switches with backup and replication
- Automatic replication job update on failover or failback
- Additional replication job options
- Veeam Quick Migration
- SmartSwitch migration cutover
- Instant VM Recovery migration
- Individual file copy
- 1-Click full VM restore
- Virtual disk restore option to inventory on existing VM
- Thin disk support for VM file level restore
- Hot-Add restore
- Hot-Add replication
- Multiple VM restore
- Network mapping on restore wizard
- VM managed object reference preservation on restore
- User profile indexing
- Support for GPT and simple dynamic disks
- NTFS permission preservation on guest file restores
- Optional search server for less than ~100 VMs
- Smaller guest index catalog size
- Real-time statistics improvements
- Job bottleneck monitor
- Loss of VM warning for removed VMs
- Support for unmanaged VMware Tools installations
- PowerShell extended to support new v6 functionality and objects
- 1-Click automatic upgrade for proxies and repositories
How cool is that! Are you curious about Veeam Backup & Replication v6? Check out Veeam’s series of webinars, with VMDoug and Gostev! Which v6 features are you most excited about? Share your feedback below.